Famed ocean liner sunk to become world’s biggest artificial reef
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post · North America
Famed ocean liner SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America and the world’s fastest, headed for the sea floor near Florida on Wednesday in a deliberate sinking designed to transform the vessel into the world’s biggest artificial reef. The finale to a year-long process preparing the ship to meet its destiny, 75 years after it was first launched at sea, was presented in a live stream showing aerial views of the once-grand vessel’s rusted hulk, stripped of its two...
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